| VA | HB972 | Pass | Possession and consumption of marijuana; penalty. Decriminalizes simple marijuana possession and provides a civil penalty of no more than $25. Current law imposes a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense, and subs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-05-21
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1285) |
| VA | HB582 | Pass | Labor and employment; collective bargaining; employees of counties, cities, and towns. Permits counties, cities, and towns to adopt local ordinances authorizing them to (i) recognize any labor union or other employee association as a bargaining agent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1209) |
| VA | HB789 | Pass | Consumer lending. Replaces references to payday loans with the term "short-term loans." The measure caps the interest and fees that may be charged under a short-term loan at an annual rate of 36 percent, plus a maintenance fee; increases the maximum ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1215) |
| VA | HB1004 | Pass | Protective orders; possession of firearms; surrender or transfer of firearms; penalty. Prohibits any person subject to a permanent protective order (i.e., a protective order with a maximum duration of two years) from knowingly possessing a firearm wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1221) |
| VA | HB340 | Pass | Emergency laws; civil relief; citizens of the Commonwealth furloughed or otherwise not receiving wages or payments due to closure of the federal government or declaration of Emergency by the Governor. Provides a 60-day stay of an unlawful detainer fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1202) |
| VA | HB438 | Pass | Workers' compensation; post-traumatic stress disorder; law-enforcement officers and firefighters. Provides that post-traumatic stress disorder incurred by a law-enforcement officer or firefighter is compensable under the Virginia Workers' Compensatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1206) |
| VA | HB833 | Pass | Prevailing wage; public works contracts; penalty. Requires contractors and subcontractors under any public contract with a state agency, or with a locality that has adopted an ordinance requiring the payment of prevailing wages, for public works to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1216) |
| VA | HJR103 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides that one motor vehicle of a veteran who has a 100 percent service-connected, permanent, and total disability sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1195) |
| VA | HB220 | Pass | Absentee voting; postage prepaid on return envelope. Requires the envelope provided to an absentee voter for the return of the absentee ballot to include prepaid postage. The provisions of the bill do not become effective unless reenacted by the 2021...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1155) |
| VA | HB1526 | Pass | Virginia Clean Economy Act. Establishes a schedule by which Dominion Energy Virginia and American Electric Power are required to retire electric generating units located in the Commonwealth that emit carbon as a by-product of combusting fuel to gener...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1193) |
| VA | HB201 | Pass | Elections; voter registration; extended time for persons to register in person. Provides any person who is qualified to vote is entitled to register to vote in person up to and including the day of the election at the office of the general registrar ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1153) |
| VA | HB714 | Pass | Virginia Energy Plan; Commonwealth Energy Policy. Adopts findings that climate change is an urgent and pressing challenge for Virginia, that swift decarbonization and a transition to clean energy are required to meet the urgency of the challenge, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1192) |
| VA | HB913 | Pass | Institutions of higher education; sexual violence policies; immunity from disciplinary action; certain students who make reports. Requires the governing board of each nonprofit private institution of higher education and each public institution of hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1041) |
| VA | HB1269 | Pass | Veterans Services Foundation. Provides that the board of trustees of the Veterans Services Foundation may be assisted in the administration of the Foundation by volunteers and staff members employed by the Executive Director. The bill also (i) adds a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1128) |
| VA | HB1103 | Pass | Ranked choice voting; elections for local governing bodies; local option pilot program. Provides that elections for local governing bodies may be conducted by ranked choice voting, which the bill defines as the method of casting and tabulating votes ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1054) |
| VA | HB2 | Pass | Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111) |
| VA | HB1519 | Pass | Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination Against African Americans; report; sunset. Creates the Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discriminati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1043) |
| VA | HB784 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject amendments to the Constitution of Virginia establishing the Virginia Redis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1070) |
| VA | HB868 | Pass | Electric utilities; right to shop. Authorizes individual retail customers of electric energy to purchase electric energy provided 100 percent from renewable energy from any licensed competitive supplier of electric energy, including any incumbent ele...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-10
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1107) |
| VA | HB211 | Pass | Special license plate; Air Medal. Creates a special license plate for persons awarded the Air Medal or for unremarried surviving spouses of such persons. An annual $10 fee, in addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates, will be charged f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0970) |
| VA | HB1495 | Pass | Virginia Retirement System; retired law-enforcement officers employed as school security officers. Allows a retired law-enforcement officer to continue to receive his service retirement allowance during a subsequent period of employment by a local sc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0968) |
| VA | HB1428 | Pass | Virginia Health Benefit Exchange. Creates the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange, which will be established and operated by a new division within the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The Exchange shall facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-09
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0916) |
| VA | HB674 | Pass | Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0887) |
| VA | HB66 | Pass | Health insurance; cost-sharing payments for prescription insulin drugs. Prohibits health insurance companies and other carriers from setting an amount exceeding $50 per 30-day supply that a covered person is required to pay at the point of sale in or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0881) |
| VA | HB1547 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; eligibility for in-state tuition. Provides that any student is eligible for in-state tuition who (i) attended high school for at least two years in the Commonwealth and either (a) graduated on or after July 1,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766) |
| VA | HB1141 | Pass | Health benefit plans; special exception. Eliminates provisions of the Code of Virginia authorizing health carriers to sell, issue, or offer for sale any health benefit plan that would otherwise not be permitted to be sold, issued, or offered for sale...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0842) |
| VA | HB817 | Pass | Department of Education; Department of Health; guidelines for use of digital devices in public schools. Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and medical professional societies, to develop and distribute...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0677) |
| VA | HB411 | Pass | Department of Motor Vehicles; information for veterans. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to offer information on veteran services available in the Commonwealth to any person who identifies himself as a veteran on a document submitted to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0698) |
| VA | HB1221 | Pass | Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; one-stop small business permitting program; guidance regarding responsibilities for maintaining a business. Requires the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to develop and provide g...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0750) |
| VA | HB528 | Pass | State Corporation Commission; retirement of coal-fired or natural gas-fired electric generation facilities. Requires the State Corporation Commission to determine the amortization period for recovery of any appropriate costs due to the early retireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662) |
| VA | HB1654 | Pass | Schedule VI controlled substances; hypodermic syringes and needles; limited-use license. Allows the Board of Pharmacy to issue a limited-use license for the purpose of dispensing Schedule VI controlled substances, excluding the combination of misopro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0609) |
| VA | HB1641 | Pass | Coal ash ponds; private wells and public water supply wells; resident notification. Requires a utility, defined in the bill as the owner or operator of a coal ash pond in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to complete a survey of all private wells and pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0625) |
| VA | HB1268 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); personal property tax exemption; motor vehicle owned by a veteran who is disabled. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2020, election to approve or reject a personal property tax exemption for a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-31
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0540) |
| VA | HB6 | Pass | Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discriminatory housing practices; source of funds. Adds discrimination on the basis of a person's source of funds to the list of unlawful discriminatory housing practices. The bill creates an exemption for an owner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0477) |
| VA | HB590 | Pass | Tax credit for participating landlords; eligible housing areas. Expands the definition of "eligible housing area" for the housing choice voucher tax credit to include Virginia census tracts in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metropolitan Statisti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0430) |
| VA | HB366 | Pass | Public defender offices; Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and County of Prince William. Establishes a public defender office for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and the County of Prince William.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0348) |
| VA | HB758 | Fail | Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission; standards and criteria. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The Commission, tasked with estab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB1663 | Fail | Prohibited discrimination; public accommodations, employment, credit, and housing: causes of action; sexual orientation and gender identity. Creates explicit causes of action for unlawful discrimination in public accommodations and employment in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
Failed to pass in House |
| VA | HB238 | Pass | Absentee voting; deadline for returning absentee ballot. Provides that any absentee ballot that is returned to the general registrar after the closing of the polls on election day but before noon on the third day after the election and postmarked on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-11
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0288) |
| VA | HR173 | Engross | Commending Rosa B. Price.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| VA | HR190 | Engross | Celebrating the life of Lorine Bernice Allen Jordan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-07
Agreed to by House |
| VA | HJR473 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Mildred DeBell.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ473ER) |
| VA | HJR454 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Maria Bonazzoli Bourne.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-05
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ454ER) |
| VA | HJR325 | Pass | Commending Girls on the Run of NOVA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ325ER) |
| VA | HJR353 | Pass | Commending the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ353ER) |
| VA | HR166 | Pass | Commending Trummer's on Main.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House (HR166ER) |
| VA | HR169 | Pass | Commending the Battlefield High School girls' swim and dive team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House (HR169ER) |
| VA | HR168 | Pass | Commending the Battlefield High School boys' swim and dive team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House (HR168ER) |
| VA | HR167 | Pass | Commending Justin Skule.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House (HR167ER) |
| VA | HR170 | Pass | Commending Aatish Sethi and Saahas Gowda.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
Bill text as passed House (HR170ER) |
